Button, brooch, belt-clasp, and buckle-front made from horn and hoof.



PATENTED AUG. 11, 1908. F. H. GROVE.

BUTTONS, BROOOHES, BELT OLA AND BUCKLE FRONTS MADE FROM HOR D P.

APPLIUATION FILED AUG. 4,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS HAROLD GROVE, OF HALESOWEN, ENGLAND.

BUTTON, BROOCH, BELT-CLASP, AND BUCKLE-FRONT MADE FROM HORN AND HOOF.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

Application filed August 4, 1906. Serial No. 329,268.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS HAROLD GROVE, a subject of His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Halesowen, in the'county of Worcester, England, manufacturers manager, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buttons, Brooches, Belt-Clasps, and Buckle-Fronts Made from Horn and Hoof, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of the herein described improvement in buttons, brooches, belt clasps, and buckle fronts, made from horn and hoof.

Horn and hoof buttons, brooches, belt clasps, and buckle fronts, made in accord ance with this invention have a much better appearance and finish and are therefore more salable than when made in the usual way.

My improved horn or hoof button, brooch, belt clasp, or buckle front is semi-transp arent and has a dyed back surface and a front polished or unpolished surface from which the dyed surface has been turned thereby showing the dyed back surface through the semitransparent horn or hoof substance at the front so that the button brooch belt clasp or buckle front when viewed from the front has a color which nearly resembles the dyed back part of the button brooch belt clasp or buckle front which can be varied according to taste. In the accompanying drawing Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 show magnified cross sections of the button at each of the several stages in the course of its manufacture.

Fig. l is a magnified cross section of the horn or hoof rough blank A from which the required button is produced; Fig. 2 is 'a cross section of the same rough blank A after being dyed, this dye only penetrating into what may be called the outer skin or surface a of the blank; Fig. 3 is a cross section of the dyed blank after being warmed and compressed in a die to the proper shape and size of the required button, and Fig. 4 is a cross section of the finished button with the dyed part of the skin turned off the front surface I) so that the dyed back surface a can be seen through the semi-transparent horn or hoof substance at the front of the button.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A horn or hoof button, brooch, belt clasp,

or buckle front, having a dyed back surface.

and a turned front surface thereby showing the dyed back surface through the semitransparent hoof or horn substance at the front, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS HAROLD GR OVE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES BosWoRTH KETLEY, THoMAs JOHN Rown. 

